I miss you so much

I miss how you smelled, I miss your touch

Feeling you embrace me after a long day of back to back wars you would drive 40+ minutes just to be waiting at my door

Ready to give me a hug

And you'd show me just how much you loved me

Just a simple embrace but the words from my mind I will never be able to erase

"I'm here I got you, you're safe now"

Those words echo in my brain even now

Night and day thinking of every single time my face lit up at a text message or a call

But that would slowly fade

As you grew further away your mind did too
With all the hate and the crying too you and I intertwined our lives so tight that leaving wasn't an option

I clipped some twigs between us to give you the option to grow and be humbled by the great big world around us

But no

You knew that being intertwined was my home, my safe space, the one true place that I could embrace even with hate it was warm most days

And as long as I found warmth even some of the time, the icy frost encasing our leaves and our foliage you finally put in its place

Untwining from me like an overgrown...